Posted on 02/22/2021 10:10:46 AM PST by karpov
The reparations legislation known as H.R. 40, which has the support of President Biden and the endorsement of Vice President Harris, is an anachronistic document.
Reparations for Blacks has been achieved since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the establishment of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs and the initiatives launched by his “War on Poverty.” These programs specifically targeted Black Americans and the recipients of tax dollars from the middle- and higher-income classes. Millions of government checks, representing tens of billions of dollars, were printed, mailed and cashed. As Stanford University economist Martin Anderson stated: “The most ambitious attempt to redistribute income ever undertaken in the United States had begun.”
The 1960s welfare programs in America were supplemented by a series of formal affirmative action programs that were themselves, I believe, a form of reparations: attempts to include Blacks in corporate and university institutions where they had been traditionally barred from entering.
Reparations rhetoric is a means of socializing Black Americans into believing that white Americans owe them something, anything other than respect for their individual rights. They are being taught to treat equity, the belief in equality of results, as an inalienable human right. But equity is an untenable idea. It rests on the idea that all persons — outside the sphere of political and legal equality — are truly equal. It unquestioningly assumes that all persons are actually born or behave equally or acquire talents, skills, capabilities of equal proportion in intelligence, strength, discipline, perseverance, frugality, temperance, tenacity, exercise of cognitive capabilities, moral choices and myriad characteristics that determine outcomes. Equity rests on the idea that equal rewards ought to proceed from unequal performance.
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If he were white, they would have sacked him a long time ago.
I vote for them getting the Fauci Gates Vaccine first including all boosters.
Not to mention a good percentage of the African Americans in the US have slave owner blood in their gene pool
Freakonomics did a great podcast on this a while back. It would be a mess.
In the antebellum book The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi, a man hoping to become a lawyer is undergoing his bar exam for which he is woefully unprepared. They ask him to explain what is meant by "equity" and his attempt to fake it is hilarious.
Reparations have been happening for 40 years, time to end them.
I can’t believe this is in the Lib Hill, Funny as hell! Must be one of their Dem NIMBY or POCKET articles:-)
No perpetual Slaves to their White ma$$as!
They even have a term for that, I wish I could recall it.
I like to point out/ask:
Barack Obama had one black parent and one white.
Does he pay or receive reparations?
And his father was Kenyan, not a descendant of American slaves, to bringit back to your comment.
I have slave owners in my VA family.
They owned them I did not.
I owe nothing
Hadn’t noticed that, thanks for pointing it out.
I know. My point was it’s just as ridiculous to make someone like you pay for what your ancestors did as it is to pay some one for sins that were visited on their ancestor.
Yep. A lot of blacks, BLM types, don't want equality; they want revenge.
I would suggest these people check out the muslims of today. EVEN today they are selling, swapping and trading blacks from Africa as slaves!!! HOWEVER, you will not here the black muzzie Louie Mat@$$ mention his muzzie brothers selling his black brothers off. Nope. Won't hear it.
Barky would get nothing. The Nigerian cab driver who picked me up from JFK two years ago gets nothing. Barky’s kids might get 50% of what a slave descendant would get but maybe less as a penalty for being 1/4 white. This could get real complicated. Records, DNA, and a plethora of other facts needed for each and every would be reparation recipient
it has worked!
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